IGP Is Allergic To Corruption; Believes Of All Institutions In Nigeria Police Has Least Corrupt Officers

The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase believes the Nigerian Police has the least corrupt officers in the country even as he claimed that he’s allergic to corruption.

He said this while speaking at the annual symposium during a Feast of Barracuda organised by the National Association of Seadogs.

Mr. Solomon Arase who was represented by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu also noted that the Police had made frantic efforts in tackling corruption even among the officers and had set in motion machinery to fish out corrupt officers in the force.

The IGP said that the practical step to deal with corruption was to dismantle road blocks by Police and the establishment of Monitoring Teams to ensure compliance across the country.

He said: “The IG said he is allergic to corruption and since then he has taken practical steps to deal with the issue of corruption, both the history of corruption and perception of corruption of the Nigeria Police Force.

“One of the first things he did was to set up the IGP’s Monitoring Teams. First of all the decision by the Police Management Team was to take out roadblocks across all our highways. It was not just to dismantle it, he set up the IGP Monitoring Team to ensure that these directives are enforced.”

“If you go across most of our highways now roadblocks have been reduced to the barest minimum, and anybody mounting roadblocks, does that at his risk.

“The Police management under Solomon Arase is doing everything possible to eliminate corruption and has taken practical steps leading to that.

“Once corruption cases are given to the police, the cases must be investigated. The Police is the least corrupt officers in every organisation because it has an in house way of dealing with the issue of organisation, trying officers, arresting officers who engage in corrupt practices.

“I think you can hardly find institutions that is like Police taking practical steps to deal with corruption, all I want to say by way of challenge is have confidence in the Police.”